So you've heard about ketosis and you know it's a state in which your body changes metabolic pathways and starts mostly using fat for energy. So you start a ketogenic diet, try a diet, or cycle your carbs and count every last carb that enters your mouth. But you feel suspicious, ignorant, and simply inappropriate to confirm if you are actually doing the right effects to get yourself into ketosis.
Well, that's why I decided to make this video, I want to give you 6 really simple tests and signs you can look for that will show if you're actually in this acclimatized state of ketosis. Let's start with the first sign you'll experience as you approach ketosis that fatigue and decreased performance postures.
When you start a commodity like a keto diet or fasting where you cut carbs too low, your body won't automatically switch to using fat efficiently for energy. It will take your body time to stop metabolizing carbohydrates and actually turn them into fats if you don't eat any carbs at all.
This is due to the fact that your body stores carbohydrates for this specific scenario. So before your body really starts trying to get more fat acclimating to it, it will pull out and use all the carbohydrates stored in the form of glycogen from your liver and your muscles. Usually, when you're already working out when you're not on a low-carb diet, this process of using up those stored carbs goes through anyway.
But the main difference is that at the end of your workout and throughout the day, the carbohydrates you eat will refill your liver and muscle glycogen stores. Still, when you're on a low-carb, keto, or fasting diet, you're now restoring those glycogen stores.
So in between this phase where your glycogen stores are declining, but your body hasn't adapted to fat yet and isn't using fat efficiently for energy, this phase is known many times as the keto flu. And while it might sound bad and might sound bad enough for you to be in this in-between phase, it's the first sign that you're starting to get into ketosis.
You'll see effects like general fatigue throughout the day, reduced amount of weight you can lift at the spa, and reduced instances of constipation as well. The good news is that after two weeks your body will completely change its energy pathways and you will feel much better because your body will start using fat efficiently for energy.
In fact, one study revealed that athletes who followed the keto diet burned 230 percent more calories from fat during exercise, than did athletes who did not follow the keto diet.
When you start to feel that your energy positions are turning back, this becomes a new sign that you are already in ketosis.
Obviously, these symptoms of ketosis have their pros and cons. The good thing about using fatigue as one of the dimensions of whether you're approaching ketosis is that all it takes is an assessment of how you feel rather than what kind of new test wear.
The point of testing in this way is that just because you're over fatigued doesn't mean 100% that you've gone into ketosis, so this is definitely not the most accurate way to get a conclusive result. But if you are looking for another end result, you will also love the upcoming test system, which you can do right at home.
Using urine ketone test strips. Now when used inappropriately, it's definitely not one hundred percent accurate, so I'll give you some tips on how to ensure you'll get an alternatively accurate reading, but first let me explain compactly how it works.
You can urinate into a clean, dry container and dip the test strip into it, or you can take a ketone test strip.
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